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Post by **froggyboy604** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:54 am

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Post by **SetoTK** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:58 pm

For nearly 20 years the naval garrison of the Ile de France (today's Mauritius) watched the colony's beacon keeper demonstrate an art he called nauscopie. M. Bottineau would scan the horizon with his naked eye--he never used a telescope--and then announce: 'Three vessels approaching--two from the south, one from southwest!' No one present could see anything but sky and water. Yet within two to seven days, the exact number of ships predicted would appear from the directions indicated. Bottineau was never wrong. Some-how he 'sighted' ships which turned out to have been several hundred miles distant. In 1784 the beacon keeper sailed to France to sell the secret to the government. He arrived at a time when the monarchy was almost bankrupt. The Ministry of Marine wouldn't even make him an offer. The French Revolution came five years later and swept Bottineau and nauscopie into oblivion. He died in total obscurity, leaving no written records. If the French navy had paid Bottineau's price and adopted his technique, France would have won the Battle of Trafalgar and Napoleon would have conquered England, because Nelson could never have surprised a French battle fleet.

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Post by **SetoTK** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:05 am

Kittens are born with their eyes closed. Only after they have lived several days, do their eyes open for the first time. Scientists discovered that if they put blindfolds on the kittens for the first three days their eyes are open, they will be blind for life. Evidently this time is important in the training of their brains' sight interpretation capability. The blindfolded kittens' eyes work fine, but their brains don't know what to do with the pictures! Newborn kittens who lived in white boxes painted with horizontal black stripes could never learn to see vertical things during their entire lives. And those raised among vertical stripes could not see horizontal things. Cats' eyes are specially developed to see horizontal things much better. In ordinary lighting their irises open as vertical slits, allowing lots of light to come in. Because the slits are narrow, focus on the horizontal plane is easy to maintain, but their ability to focus on objects vertically is reduced due to the relatively large opening vertically. Their retinas, like human retinas, analyze the picture before it is sent to the brain. The brain doesn't just get a dot by dot representation, but rather an interpreted story from the retina. One fact relating to this interpretation is that a cat will see movement much more clearly than the detail of a still scene. For instance, if your cat is not paying attention to you, wave your hand a little bit, and the cat will instantly look your way. All this makes sense for a cat's survival. Their food moves in the grass and they have to see it right away. But the motionless grass and the rocks are of no significance. Most of a cat's food moves across the ground - horizontally. This is why a cat can easily chase a ball that rolls on a table, but looses it when the ball falls to the floor. Watch a cat stalk a bird. They get closer, and closer, then suddenly the bird flies up into the air. Often the cat doesn't even look up. To the cat, the bird simply vanished.